Official effect
Low-end-forward soft clipping with a much heavier pre-drive bass shelf than the rest of the overdrive group.
This version keeps the standard single tanh stage and 930 Hz mid boost, but it dramatically increases the low shelf feeding the saturation stage. That means more bass is carried into clipping before the usual post-drive high shelf, giving the current preview its fuller low-end emphasis.
Static peaks come from the compiled FAUST preview render. The live scope is drawn from the browser playback output in real time.
How It Works
This version keeps the standard single tanh stage and 930 Hz mid boost, but it dramatically increases the low shelf feeding the saturation stage. That means more bass is carried into clipping before the usual post-drive high shelf, giving the current preview its fuller low-end emphasis.
Signal Path
Preview source: An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it reaches the active drive path.
An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it reaches the active drive path.
Single-stage tanh overdrive with exaggerated pre-drive low-shelf support.
The static waveform and the live player both reflect this compiled signal chain.
These are the currently active controls detected in the FAUST source for this effect.
The generated description is tied to the active helper blocks and routing found in the current DSP.
Controls
Blends the clean stereo preview source with the soft-clipped overdrive path.
Lower values keep more dry articulation; higher values favor the overdrive voice.
Applies final post-effect level trim after the DC blocker.
Balances loudness without changing how the clipping stage behaves.
Raises the level feeding the single tanh saturation stage.
Moves the patch from light breakup toward thicker, more compressed overdrive.
Controls the post-drive high shelf after saturation.
Brightens the clipped signal for more edge or smooths it for a darker voice.
Changes the low shelf and 930 Hz emphasis ahead of clipping.
Pushes more body or midrange into saturation, changing how focused the overdrive feels.
Analysis
Reviewed against the current DSP. This patch is differentiated mainly by how much more low-end is pushed into the same single-stage soft-clip topology.
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
More In Drive, Boost & Saturation
Each effect page uses the same generated description pipeline and compiled waveform preview assets.